Kidnapping

A Perryville man faces multiple charges after attempting two robberies in the same night.

A Kansas City man faces several charges accusing him of separate attacks on women beginning in 2013.

BELLMAWR, N.J. (AP) — A Missouri man from Honduras has been arrested in New Jersey for allegedly kidnapping and sexually assaulting his estranged girlfriend. The Camden County Prosecutor's Office says Jose Amaya-Vasquez was arrested early Tuesday morning at the Super 8 Motel in Bellmawr, New Jersey...

SPRINGFIELD, Mo. (AP) — A judge has dismissed a case against a Saudi national accused of kidnapping and sexually assaulting a woman in Springfield two years ago. Greene County Circuit Judge Mark Powell dismissed the case against Rayan Alqabbaa...

TROY, Mo. (AP) — A Missouri judge has reduced the bond for four people accused of staging a kidnapping of a 6-year-old boy. KMOV-TV reports each of the defendants had been ordered jailed on $250,000 cash-only bond. But a Lincoln County judge on Thursday pared bonds for three of them to $100,000, while the fourth defendant had her bond reduced to $50,000 because of health considerations... Read Mor

TROY, Mo. (AP) — The attorney for a woman who helped stage a 6-year-old's kidnapping says she and three others may be guilty of bad judgment but not criminal behavior. Lawyer Charles James is representing the 58-year-old woman, whom authorities say helped plot the kidnapping with the boy's mother, another woman and a 23-year-old man to teach him about stranger danger...

Sedalia Police arrested 27-year-old Joseph Rankin and 45-year-old Paula Hopkins for kidnapping on Saturday (Nov. 8). Hopkins and Rankin were linked to the abduction that took place on Oct. 31. A victim reported to Sedalia Police that she was kidnapped from her home by threats of harm, then put into a car and taken to Kansas City, Kansas...

SPRINGFIELD, Mo. (AP) — A Springfield middle-school football coach plans to plead not guilty in the kidnapping and shooting death of a 10-year-old girl.

SPRINGFIELD, Mo. (AP) — Springfield police say a 45-year-old man is jailed on suspicion of first-degree murder in the case of a missing 10-year-old girl.

Two suspects have been arrested after kidnapping a woman and her 7-year-old son from a WalMart parking lot in Warrensburg on Thursday (Dec. 5). Alan E. Briscoe age, 23 of Knob Noster and Kevin A. Ratte age 21 of Warrensburg are facing charges of kidnapping, child kidnapping, 1st degree robbery, stealing a motor vehicle and sexual misconduct.